Axel Eder:  

My East Germany escape to America! My father was in the German army and a prisoner of war, held captive by the US Army. After the war he returned home to his home city, which was now in the Russian zone, or also known as East Germany. A few years later I was born and my father knew that the future was no longer in East Germany. One day he and my mother escape viy what was called the green border, for you see at this time the wall was not yet built, but Russian snipers were placed to stop anyone leaving the Russian zone. Both made to western Germany, but I was left behind, because I was only 6 months old at the time and the risk would have been to big for three persons to escape at one time. My fathers goal now was to get his son over to the free world. He noticed that a old man lived in East Germany, but had a garden across a small creek, that was the border between the two zones. Each day the man crossed the creek into western Germany and returned home that evening. The Russian border control, knew this, but let the old man pass each day, knowing he would return in the evening. My father met ...Expand for more